Finnish War
The Finnish War (Swedish: [Finska kriget] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Finnish: [Suomen sota] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Russian: Русско-шведская война 1808—1809) was a war fought in 1808-1809 between Russia and Sweden. King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden lost, and Sweden lost its Eastern third. The lost land became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.
| Finnish War | |||||||||
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| Part of Russo–Swedish Wars and Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
| File:Fi krig map1.jpg Map of notable locations in Finland during the war | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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23x15px Russian Empire Supported by 23x15px France 23x15px Spain |
23x15px Sweden Supported by 23x15px United Kingdom File:Flag Portugal (1750).svg Portugal [1] | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Fyodor Buxhoeveden Bogdan von Knorring Pyotr Bagration Barclay de Tolly Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov |
Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor Carl Johan Adlercreutz Georg Carl von Döbeln | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| August 1808: 95,000+ soldiers | August 1808: 36,000+ soldiers | ||||||||
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Finnish War Media
- The Finnish war map1.svg
Finnish War, February 1808 at the outbreak of the war
- Kuopio 1808.jpg
The Swedish assault on the chancellery in Kuopio during the Battle of Kuopio
- The Finnish war map2.svg
Finnish War, March–May 1808
- The Finnish war map3.svg
Finnish War, May–October 1808
- The Finnish war map4.svg
Finnish War, Winter 1808 - Summer 1809
- Gustavarrest.jpg
Arrest of Gustav IV.
Memorial plaque commemorating the Russian army's crossing of Kvarken in 1809 in Björköby, Finland.
- Ratan battle.jpg
Second to last battle of the war at Ratan near Umeå in Swedish Västerbotten
- The Finnish war map5.svg
This is the last out of a 5 map series, visualizing the events of the war between Sweden and Russia. This map visualizes the aftermath of the war, at a large scale (the whole of the Scandinavian Peninsula)
References
Other websites
16x16px Media related to Finnish War at Wikimedia Commons
